Apple Inc.
Smart Cropping of Images

Abstract:

Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to provide for automatic cropping of images, given a requested target dimensions and/or aspect ratio, e.g., by using saliency maps to identify the parts of the image containing the most important content--and ensuring that such content is, if possible, included in a determined cropped region from the image. In particular, the devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices disclosed herein may: define a first region of interest (ROI) in a given image that is most essential to include in an automatically-determined cropped region; define a second ROI in the given image that would be preferable to include in the automatically-determined cropped region; and then determine a cropped region from the given image, based on the requested target dimensions and/or aspect ratio, that attempts to maximize an amount of overlap between the determined cropped region and the first and/or second ROIs.